Soon after the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror encouraged Jews to come to England.

Ghettos, areas of a city mainly or exclusively populated by Jews, were common across Europe.

According to Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, this was the only permitted burial ground for Jews.

Richard Price, minister of Newington Green Chapel, was also the afternoon preacher here from 1763.

[1] Joseph Fawcett spoke there from 1785, when he began a series of Sunday evening lectures which drew "the largest and most genteel London audience that ever assembled in a dissenting place of worship".